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Have a great weekend.

What are your up to this weekend? We're going to a grilled-cheese competition and watching the Oscars (meaning: analyzing red-carpet dresses). Also, I wanted to thank you so much for the hundreds and hundreds of comments, emails and overall outpouring of support and similar feeling after I wrote this personal post. I was stunned by how many women could relate; we really are all in this together. Thank you. xoxo Have a wonderful weekend, and here are a few great posts from around the web...

Also, to answer the Question "Can grown ups ride scooters?"... yes, they can! I'm a designer for Abercrombie and Fitch, and during the warm months of the year the maintenance staff puts out a couple hundred Razor scooters for people to get around "campus" (as we call the office - a sprawling compound out in the woods outside Columbus, OH). So we frequently scoot from one building to the other when going to meetings or to get lunch at the cafe. It's great!

So glad to see other people pick up on the oddity of asking people if they'd consider wearing a one-piece!!

Always thought of this a blog for the every-woman, and felt a huge surge of disappointment reading that question. Had you always imagined your readers to be a gaggle of young skinny-malinky bikini bods?

I forgot to comment on your personal post, I wanted to thank you for speaking up about issues that people sometimes don't want to talk about..it was so brave of you and hopefully it will help raise awareness. I have had my own issues, I know how real it can be. Have a great weekend!

As for that book about the so-called "French" education, I cannot hear about it anymore...! As a 30-something French girl, born and raised in Paris, currently living in Paris and being a teacher (elementary school, 6/7 years old) I tell you both the book and the article are so cliché!!! There are as many messed-up families here as anywhere in the world, as many well-educated children and bad-educated children (and parents!) as in any country. And yes, parents do go to the park with their children here too, and no, we do not all smoke (!!).So pleaeaease, let's stop that crappy one-country-against-the-other-on-whatever-subject thing. Let's learn from each other, in a positive and interesting way :-))

By the way, thank you for having such an interesting, open, and fun and above all sincere blog. I love it.

So, I don't want to be a negative nelly, but the "What Was Daddy Thinking?" blog really bums me out. This kind of blog reiterates a bogus conception of men as inept parents, as evolutionarily unqualified to be caregivers. Men who take an active parenting role have to work hard to overcome these negative perceptions of themselves while at the same time trying to keep from feeling emasculated. Men at the park are scolded for not taking care for their children properly, while men at the grocery store are lauded for acting caring and loving towards their children (could you ever imagine a woman saying to a mother "Wow, you must really love them!" while gushing over how sweet you're being with your children?). Michael Chabon's "Manhood for Amateurs" has an amazing essay on this frustrating double-standard.

I know that there is a gender imbalance in many families regarding childcare, but I would encourage us to think more inclusively about the caregiver role. I would love to see more images of men taking care of children, and more stories of men's roles in their families.

xox Thank you for enabling discussions with your honest posts about motherhood.

to all commenters out there who are offended, only because of a question regarding one piece bathing suits: this is ridicilous! think about it!! i actually look quite weird in a one piece because of my non existing decolte. should i now be offended too?? tzzz... sorry about my english...

thank you so much for your comments. i'm SO sorry to make anyone feel alienated or offended by the one-piece bathing suit question!!! i absolutely didn't mean to offend. tons of my friends and relatives wear one-pieces; i just haven't ever worn one, because i have such a flat chest, it makes me look like an 8-year-old. i was just wondering if any of you guys do, or have found sexy ones, and if you like them. im planning to try one this summer. apologies, DEFINITELY a benign question, and i would never want to offend!! xoxoxo joanna